Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who lived for 18 years in the Paris airport and who served as inspiration for the Tom Hanks film, has died.
Merhan Karimi Nasserithe Iranian refugee who lived for 18 years at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and inspired the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks film ‘The Terminal’died last Saturday at the airport, according to the authorities. It is believed that she was around 80 years old.
Nasseri died of a heart attack at the airport’s Terminal 2F around noon. A medical team and the police attended to him, but were unable to save him.
Nasseri lived in Terminal 1 of the airport for 18 years, from 1988 to 2006. At first he was in legal limbo because he had no residency papers, but then he stayed at the airport by choice. The story of how the man’s documents and passport were lost varies depending on the source, but the result is the same: Nasseri was left in literally no man’s land, as he could not return to his country of origin or enter France, so he had to survive in the airport terminal itself.
In 2006 he had to be hospitalized and from there he moved to various shelters in the city, although in recent weeks he had reestablished his home at the Parisian airport.
In 2004, Spielberg’s film ‘The terminal‘, starring Tom Hanks and with a cast that included, among others, Stanley Tucci, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zoe Saldana and Diego Luna, grossed $219 million at the box office worldwide. ‘The Terminal’ features Hanks as “Viktor Navorski”, an immigrant from a fictional country who finds himself stranded at JFK airport when his government collapses, making his papers null and void. In typical Spielberg fashion, Hanks embarks on a journey of fantastical proportions within the confines of the airport, falling in love and establishing an emotional, human connection with the viewer.
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